Makoto Sakurai will replace Sayuri Shirai
Shirai voted against the January BOJ decision to adopt negative interest rates
While new guy Sakurai's monetary policy leanings are not yet clear it does seem he is more dovish than Shirai
Sakurai is a director of the Center for International Finance at Japan's MSK Research Institute, and has been an adviser to the Ministry of Finance and Japanese financial institutions
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I posted earlier on a Nikkei report that Takako Masai of Shinsei Bank was to get the nod, but it appears now she is a contender to replace Koji Ishida, whose term expires in June
